Malte

Magna Żmien digitises analogue material held by Maltese communities, restoring access to previously lost images, sounds and narratives. The organisation was established in 2017 for the European Capital of Culture programme, Valletta 2018. It was recently awarded Arts Council Malta’s three-year Investment in Cultural Organisations Malta fund for the second time. The Magna Żmien digitisation studio can handle a range of legacy analogue audio-visual formats that were common among home consumers throughout the twentieth century. Collections are digitised using the best available equipment, and employing good practice technical standards, following international standards set by IASA and Library of Congress, where possible. This content is shared on our platforms and through our activities, preserving it for future generations, while being careful to credit and respect the wishes of the donor. We make the material that we gather in our archive available to artists and researchers. Our activities include: a) Collecting Malta-related audio-visual ephemeral material, migrating the content from obsolete carriers to more stable and accessible formats, and preserving this content to international archival standards for long term public access. b) Documenting communities in Malta and its diaspora by undertaking primary research via interviews, oral histories and other methods. c) Conducting academic and artistic research upon Malta-related intangible cultural heritage and disseminating our findings by producing installations, exhibitions, performances, and print and digital publications that creatively reuse and reinterpret this material in publicly engaging contexts, in collaboration with creative practitioners and researchers in Malta and abroad. d) Educating individuals and organisations in audio-visual archiving and creative project development through formal and informal training programmes and partnerships. e) Developing working relationships with cultural heritage institutions in Malta and abroad. f) Fundraising, and thereby financing, aiding, supporting and developing selected projects that fall within the Foundation’s remit.

In line with its strategic plan, MGRM is campaigning for a number of legislative and policy changes to be introduced. These include the legal recognition of same-sex couples and their families; a new gender identity act for Malta; the inclusion of sex reassignment under the National Health Service; the widening of the NCPE remit to include sexual orientation and gender identity; the introduction of homophobic and transphobic hate crime legislation; and the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation in the provision of goods and services. MGRM is also advocating for an anti homophobic and transphobic bullying policy in schools primarily through its Think Before You Speak: Making Life Better for LGBT Youth Campaign. MGRM offers support services through its National Gay Helpline and also carries out awareness raising and training activities. The MGRM is also responsible for the organisation of Pride Week.

Public health:
1. philanthropy Relief of poverty pain and suffering and other humanitarian needs.
2. The advancement of education.
3. The advancement of religion.
4. social and community advancement.
5. The advancement of culture, arts and national heritage
6. The advancement of environmental protection and improvement,inculiding the protection of animals.
7. The promotion of human rights ,conflict resolution,democracy and reconciliation.

We hold the Annual Andrew Vella Memorial Lecture.
We are also holding a movie-a-month activity on campus showing history-related /themed films to the students and hold a discussion afterwards.
We are also working on hosting a public lecture with various themes every 2 months and a cultural walk once a month.
MUHS also caters for the publication of the journal STORJA and a gazette by students called GRAJJIETNA.

Planned projects:
Different aspects of migration in Europe and the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region – seminars, case study visits, publications, dissemination of results within and among international organisations, diplomats, academic circles, NGO leaders and grassroots bodies and, most importantly, follow-up site projects. Will take place in 3 European and 3 MENA countries.
Project about Youth Involvement in the Labour Market – in cooperation with the Students' Forum Initiative NGO from Bethlehem, Palestine, aims to study trends among young people in different MEDA societies, and follow up with concrete projects aimed at increasing youth involvement in the labour marker, empowering youths while involving all relevant national and regional stakeholders in the process.
Matters Human magazine – with opinions and analyses from different perspectives written by the team members, regional coordinators and external contributors from the the diplomatic and academic fields, as well as from civil society actors, from different parts of the world, to be distributed to as wide an audience as possible using both electronic and print media.